Best of

the Twin Cities

Best Dancer

Erin Thompson

A mature dancer with an ample and varied expressive palette, Erin Thompson infused Joanie Smith's Tableaux Vivant, a tribute to suffragettes and female icons of the early 20th century, with heroic vigor and sly sensuality. Through shifting characterizations of women including flappers, mothers, and militant feminists, Thompson charged each gesture with fluid intensity. Movement purled through her lithe body as she imbued the period dances and behaviors suggested in Smith's vignettes with swing, sass, and rhythmic panache. Part of an excellent ensemble of dancers ages 22 to 75, Thompson captured the eternal feminine in subtly detailed motion.